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From: warner@hydrovax.nmt.edu (M. Warner Losh)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Does NNTP NEWS support Reply and Forward now?
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Date: 23 Feb 89 07:17:50 GMT
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In article <1947@erix.ericsson.se>, per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland) writes...
>If I'm not entirely mistaken, the confusion here has it's root in a simple
>nntp-based news reader for VMS posted to comp.os.vms a while back. It did
>indeed lack reply and forward (whatever that is) capabilities, and was called
>- that's right - 'NEWS'. I don't have access to the source right now, but can
>dig it out if there is interest. Anyway, I seem to remember that the author's
>description implied that he didn't intend to support it in any "official"
>manner, i.e. I doubt that there are updated versions available.

There are others out there who have upgraded and modified the source to
NEWS.  I am one of them who has yet to post his "new and imporved" sources
to the network.  Watch comp.os.vms in the next few weeks for an announcement
about this.

>The reason I know this is (of course) that when the local VMSites installed it,
>I got similar questions about why "NNTP" did this or that... It is still in
>daily use here, as far as I know.

I'm using it to post this reply right now.  :-)
>per@erix.ericsson.se
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Warner Losh
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